Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-13
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OaA1LAH, KAN, August 10, 1887.
Mrs. Mckinley has gone east on
visit.
Foster Palmer's mother-in-law is here
visiting for q time.
Mrs. Lizzie Phelps is at home. She j
sick with dysentery.
Dan1 Countryman was cutting ha.
for Swan Loftstead last week.
Arrived, at the home Of VIM. Hull
Tuesday, Aug. "a girl Oh! Bill, won'
you treat?
Mike Richards's team ran away the
other day. Its q poor team that DOM
stir up little excitement.
Albert Tawney had the misfortune to
Get his hand mashed while he was build
ing the tower for the Ogallah windmill.
Ogallah has windmill and water tank
for the benefit of the public. There have
always been pump and trough at the
public we'll here.
AN OPEN LETTER WRITTEN FOB THE
"OOZINGs."
The "corner" question was settled on
Aug. 4. In a previous letter / referred to
the controversy going on over lines,
boundaries, recent surveys, ETC., In t. IL,
+. %, Ogallah township. 1t will be
remembered that the State Forestry lie
located on the NV h OF sec. %, in this
township. Forestry Commissioner Robb,
who wished to build at once upon that
part of the station land which would be
affected by q change in the lines, was
much annoyed by the repeated protest Of
certain parties who claimed to know it
all, and who insisted that these lines
would surely be changed and that old
corners must 60. It was suggested by
Jas. Kelly, of Wa-Keeney, Ito whom
many thanks are due,) that our county
surveyor, ex-county surveyor, @. j.
Ferris, and Ben G. Rich 60 to Ogallah on
Aug. 4, with others of our citizens, and
examine carefully all the corners in t. IL,
r. %, and determine, il possible, upon
their genuineness. It will be remem-
bered that Ben G. Rich surveyed over
these corners in .879, in company with
@. @. Yetter, Jos. LIGHTHOUSE and others.
Our surveying and inspecting company
on the consisted of G. J. Ferris, Ben @.
Rich, @. H. Gibbs and Jas. Kelly. After
the inner man was replenished at noon,
which required the united efforts of
Messrs. Robb and Yetter, the procession
moved in rather struggling order. Ren
always goes struggling, but he gets there
just the same.) The first drive was for
the SO cor. of see. %. When we got to
said landmark we found Ben standing
astraddle of the goat with boot in each
depression; and 80 we're found the several
corners, which we've visited in succession
until we came to the NV cor. of sec. ~,
IL, %, which was 'tfpeshed up" by G. j.
Ferris, and from which other surveyors
have been guided for the last eight years.
In April the last corner examination was
the half mile corner on the east line of
Yetter's timber claim. Two plain holes
and the stake which Peck drove in 1879
are all here now. It was now unnecessary
to 90 any further, as here was evidence
enough to satisfy the most skeptical.
All of them came to town, where aff-
davits were made by Ben G. Rich, G. G.
Yetter and dollhouse that the corners
examined were the same corners that
were known and identified by them as
genuine government corners in Feb, 1879.
Surveyor Wilson stayed over night, and
after looking carefully over his field notes
finds the following: Corner SO %, sw "a,
NV %, ne 26, from pits and mounds,
according to gov. plat, z chains and 81
links to q. P. r. r. This measurement
was made Friday morning by Surveyor
Wilson and Joseph Marquand, in pres
ence OF Commissioner Robb and G. G.
Yetter, and it measured out exactly right
to the link. The field notes further in
cluded the distance from sw %, SO e, as
being 36 chains and 60 links. This
was made, and it Tailed
out Sc chains and 80 links, which num-
her over run at the corner, showing that
il started correctly it would come out to
the link, as indicated in field notes.
Many thanks to those of our Wa-Keeney
friends who, by their aid, have, at last,
settled beyond controversy that much
mooted and most-annoying question of
lands. Yours truly.